Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1905 — Would Be Good Thing for Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Would Be Good Thing for Rensselaer.

The trustees of the Co burn academy, a school maintained in the interests of the English Luth* e r an church held a business meeting in Lfayette Monday. There has beou talk of moving tie academy from Colburn, and it ha 3 been decided to do so as soon is a suitable location can bi secured, The desire is t j locate the college iu a larger place and to en--1 .rge it si as to increase its scope cf usefulness. It is said that the denomination is ready to expend $50,000 in enlarging the school. At the meeting a committee appointed by the Retail Merchants’ Association, waited upon trie trustees aud presented a proposition from the Highland Park Land Co. This proposition is a donation of five acres of land for a site for the coll ge at Lafayette. A letter was presented fr itn Mulberry r ffcring a cash don tioa of $2,000 aud a site fertile college. A letter was presented fr< m Fraukfort offering a i du . rnent, anl one was presented fr ui Delphi offering, both land and minty. As a resu't of the me-1' g. t e olliw. ing resolution was pis-ed: ‘Resolved. Tha »•* ojjt»n the question of mo via t e C >lhurn academy ar d that tneva'i n l towns interested he it vited to offer written u-daoemenis for the - ew location for consideration at the next meeting, to be held early in April.'’